A federal court has issued a nationwide injunction blocking the federal government from enforcing its upcoming vaccination requirements for employers awarded federal contracts.
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A proposed rule of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division to raise the minimum wage for workers of federal contractors to $15.00 per hour from the current $10.95 could cause confusion for federal contractors already paying more than that.
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Last month, President Trump rescinded the Obama-era Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order (a/k/a, the “Blacklisting Order”), which required companies to disclose violations of numerous federal employment and labor laws in order to qualify for contracts with the federal government, and practically created the risk that certain employers would be “blacklisted” from procuring federal contracts. The repeal came through the Congressional Review Act of 1996 (the “CRA”), which provides a fast-track process for repealing agency regulations.
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